Comments on: Churchill’s Biographers: Manchester vs. Gilbert http://localhost:8080/biographers-manchester-gilbert Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Fri, 20 May 2022 17:46:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Richard Langworth http://localhost:8080/biographers-manchester-gilbert#comment-26855 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:19:01 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=7877#comment-26855 In reply to Savrola.

I remember querying Bill Manchester about that when I read the proofs. No luck! Manchester had a prurient streak and was given to rumors of sexual escapades. The Castlerosse nonsense had been circulating since the late 1930s, and he bought it. See “Too Easy to be Good: The Churchill Marriage and Lady Castlerosse.”

One reason why Andrew Roberts’ new book is the best single-volume Churchill biography is his routine dismissal of tall tales as he goes along. They fall like ten pins. See “No Cutlet Uncooked: Andrew Roberts’ Superb Churchill Biography.”

]]> By: Savrola http://localhost:8080/biographers-manchester-gilbert#comment-26854 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:00:57 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=7877#comment-26854 I’ve just begun reading the second volume of Manchester’s biography and I must say I have come across a grievous error already. Manchester confirms the Lady Castlerosse affair. He calls her a titled Englishwoman but it is amply clear who that woman is. Which is quite disappointing given the fact that this to quote Andrew Roberts “is all bilge.” One wonders what led him to print such a thing ?

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